Senator for the ACT Kate Lundy presented the finalised briefing paper from her third Public Sphere on Australian ICT and Creative Industries Development to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr today to put to the Information Technology Industry Innovation Council. Public Sphere Briefing paper #3 – Australian ICT [...]
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Recommendations from ICT/Creative Industries Public Sphere up for endorsement
Public Sphere 3: ICT & Creative Industry Development is now finally closed for further edits. The recommendations are all in an online endorsement system called IdeaScale and we’d like to strongly encourage you to take a few minutes to endorse recommendations you care about. This process is a basic quality assurance of the ideas as [...]
Retirees point finger at index
PSNews article Over 500 Commonwealth superannuants attended a public meeting in Canberra recently to address pension indexation arrangements in Australian Government Civilian and Military Superannuation Schemes. ACT Senators Kate Lundy (Labor) and Gary Humphries (Liberal) addressed the meeting, giving their views on Trevor Matthews’ review into superannuation indexation for APS and military employees. Both Senators [...]
Address to Canberra Public Meeting
Following the public meeting on Monday, I wanted to post the notes from my presentation for your reference: (Check against delivery) I want to thank the SCOA (Superannuated Commonwealth Officers’ Association) executive committee and to DFWA (Defence Force Welfare Association) for inviting me to talk and to listen to you. I am representing the Government [...]
Response from Minister Tanner to our letter re: Matthews Reveiw
Please find below a link to a scan of the letter I received from Minister Tanner in response to the letter I sent in September along with my colleagues Mike Kelly, Annette Ellis and Bob McMullan. Letter from Minister Tanner – 26th Oct 2009 Obviously we are disappointed with the response however the Minister has [...]
Senate Estimates Committee
At the Senate Estimates Committee hearing on Tuesday 20 October, Senator Sherry represented Minister for Fianance, Mr Tanner and answered questions from Senator Humphries on the Matthews Review. Referring to our letter (i.e. from Lundy/Kelly/McMullan/Ellis) to Minister Tanner, Senator Sherry said that the Minister had responded: in fact we have finally now received that response [...]
New article: Labor MPs lashout over PS super
Article in the Canberra Times, by Danielle Cronin – 26/09/2009 In an extraordinary move, two parliamentary secretaries and two backbenchers have condemned their Government’s rejection of a plan to improve superannuation for retired bureaucrats and defence personnel. The decision affects about 300,000 people including about 50,000 in the Canberra region and has attracted strong criticism [...]
Ranking of recommendations from Public Sphere 2: Gov 2.0
Please find the ranking of the recommendations arising from the Public Sphere 2: Gov 2.0 topic. This was presented to the Taskforce and the Briefing Paper handover and Q&A session last month. The original recommendations were derived from the Public Sphere process, and honed in the Public Sphere 2 wiki. Please click through for a [...]
Letter to Minister Tanner about Comsuper
Here is the joint letter from myself, Mike Kelly, Annette Ellis and Bob McMullan to Minister Tanner regarding our concerns about the Government’s decision to accept the Matthews Review recommendations. This letter to the Minister is based on lots of discussions and having had the opportunity to absorb many views raised in the blog. As [...]
Developing a new direction for the campaign
Following public comments expressing my disappointment and reflecting on the depth of your anger and frustration, I have been reading up on the Matthews review and like many of you, thinking about where to next with the campaign. I will be posting my thoughts on this in the next few days. At that point I [...]
